Lower Swatara Township

Lower Swatara Township is a township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The name means "Where we fed from eels" in Iroquois, and the original settlers were mostly Presbyterians from Ireland and Scotland, with later immigrants arriving from the Palatinate region of Germany. In 2010, Lower Swatara had a population of 8,268 people, with 93.7% being white, 3.07% African-American, 1.91% Hispanic, and 1.53% Asian.